Friday, February 27, 2009

Dr Angel has flown too close to the sun

Scientists claim they can fight global warming by firing trillions of mirrors into space to deflect the sun's rays forming a 100,000 square mile "sun shade".

According to astronomer Dr Roger Angel, at the University of Arizona, the trillions of mirrors would have to be fired one million miles above the earth using a huge cannon with a barrel of 0.6 miles across.

The gun would pack 100 times the power of conventional weapons and need an exclusion zone of several miles before being fired.

Despite the obvious obstacles—including an estimated $350 trillion (£244trn) price tag for the project—Dr Angel is confident of getting the project off the ground.

If Dr Angel's sun shield is successful he says the mirrors will last 50 years before needing to be replaced.

"What you are talking about is a project which will stop global warming for centuries to come," he said.

No, Dr Angel: if this stupid idea actually worked, what you are talking about is plunging the Earth into a catastrophic ice-age from which it wouldn't recover for at least 50 years. Or rather, the Earth will be absolutely fine: mankind would be wiped out.

You know, all of those great British post-apocalyptic sci-fi writers were right—aided by pig-ignorant, evil politicians, insane scientists will, indeed, destroy us all. The only bit that said writers got wrong was that the apocalypse would be delivered by nuclear weapons.

How many trillions of pounds? This has got to be the most pathetic, insane fucking shit-mad 'scheme' I've ever heard of, including my sci-fi collection of books and movies. I mean, a mankind destroying economic liability, in order to fight against something that doesn't exist. Mmmm smells like a dialectic to me.

I would give Dr Angel the pimp hand for that statement. Anything to justify their continuing salaries I suppose...

The window licker's window licker, and thoroughly trumping the other daft ideas like pouring iron filings into the sea. Law of unintended consequences, nnnnnnnnnnuurrrrrhhh what's that then? But cheer up, I very much doubt it'll happen - $345 trillion is a huge amount of money that the world simply hasn't got spare at the moment.

I saw a Discovery documentary about this. The mirrors are tiny and very very thin. All the tests they did on them failed miserably. They fired them from an electromagnetic gun and in a rocket. The mirrors smashed every single time.

Even if they did manage to get them to survive, the number of"bullets" they would need to shoot into space was in the tens of thousands.

They did another project designing a ballon as a wind turbine and got would when it turned at lowish windspeeds. No generator was attached , and anybody who had a dynamo on a bike as a kid will now how much harder it was to pedal when you were using it.

Both ideas are completely barking. They haven't a clue. But no doubt they will be reaching down the government's blouse to haul that state teat out for a damn good sucking.Ardeholes!

And what happens when all these mirrors get smashed to buggery by all the crap orbiting the planet? Even more crap to clean up. Sounds like a mini environmental disaster waiting to be approved by the cunts in various gumments...

I guess the dimwit thinks that as global warming is man-made and people will carry on heating the earth up, it is necessary to stop any other form of heat.

In other words, all the tons of hot air generated by the leftie media is not having the right effect. We, the plebs who don't have second homes in exotic places or need to fly the world collecting awards for our spoutings, are still generating way too much heat.